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The laboratory brought together academics from economics and related disciplines to present and discuss their latest work on evaluating and measuring beliefs and social norms through experimental methods

The results of the Russian Competition of Theses in Mathematics 2021 have been announced.

The induction of the MuseNet deep neural network into the Russian Union of Composers in April 2021 has interesting implications—will artificial intelligence edge live performers out of their profession? Evgenia Evpak, composer, teacher at the HSE Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design and graduate of the HSE ISSEK Master’s programme in Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation, believes that humans still have a future in the music industry.

Researchers from HSE University have discovered nucleotide sequences characteristic of microRNA isoforms (microRNAs with errors). The discovery will help predict errors in microRNA behaviour and create drugs that can detect targets (such as viruses) more effectively. The results of the study have been published in the RNA Biology journal.

On July 6, a student research expedition to Komi-Permyak Okrug of Perm Krai, realized within the framework of NRU HSE program “Discovering Russia Anew”, came to an end. 

Olga Dragoy, Chief Researcher and Director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain, spoke in a popular way about how linguists can help in clinical practice.

The article by the international research team focuses on global climate policy.

The Institute of World Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (in collaboration with the Democracy Institute of Central European University) is organizing the 7th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC) Annual International Conference in Budapest, on 29-30 November 2021.

An article "COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries" co-authored by Georgiy Syunyaev and Ekaterina Borisova among the multinational research team was published online in "Nature Medicine" yesterday. The article features data from an ICSID survey “Research on COVID-19 in Russian Regions (RoCiRR)”, which got 23 thousand responses across 61 Russian regions.

In 2014-2020, the number of international doctoral students increased from 5,500 to 9,500 and their share grew from 4.6 to 10.8%, according to Rosstat data analyzed by HSE ISSEK. In 2020, the largest number of students came from China (2204 students) and Kazakhstan (1194 students). The share of doctoral students from the CIS countries did not exceed 30.5% for the first time during the period under review.